The unbearable lightness of Europe

The speech of JD Vance, vice president of the United States at the Munich Conference on Security, in front of an audience made up of senior officials, politicians, military and diplomats European fell like an ice water bath: Vance Humiles to Europe. The rejection was almost unanimous to the main argumentative line on the poverty of democracy that prevails in the European Union.

Vance said: We believe that we can reach a reasonable solution between Russia and Ukraine. We also believe that it is important that in the coming years Europe will take the step to pay its own security.

With this first plot line, Europeans became clear that in the peace negotiations promoted by the US with Russia, the EU was not going to have any participation (nor Ukraine).

The threat that worries me the most for Europe is not Russia, it is not China, it is nothing external. It is the threat from within, the retirement of Europe from its most fundamental values, which they have shared with the US.

He also pointed out that he was concerned that freedom of expression It is in retirement In the EU.

Vance’s speech has been considered as historical because it shows existing fractures with EU and placed Europeans in a dilemma on the same future of the Union. What attitude in front of the peace negotiations initiated by the US with Russia without European participation? The US Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, was also clear. He pointed out on February 12 in Brussels, that he was not going to return to the borders prior to 2014 and that this negotiation should not be a Minsk 3 treaty (referring to the fact that the other two were a hoax to Russia to gain time and assemble Ukraine, as one of the negotiators confessed: former German Chancellor Angela Merkel).

Of course, the exclusions in a negotiation of this caliber in an increasingly multipolar context are not convenient (to the Peace Summit in Ukraine, carried out in Switzerland in June 2024, Russia was not invited either). As Glenn Disen pointed out, Norwegian political scientist interviewed by Pascal Lottaz (EU elites are scared by the abandonment of USNeutrality Studies, 2/17/25), this was predictable: Europeans have become increasingly dependent on the United States, leaving aside their basic interests, which makes them expendable. Instead of being rewarded by submission we see that the Americans come to dictate what needs to be done.

In recent years the Europeans even rejected the basic diplomacy: they did not even want to sit at the table with the Russians; When in some forum the Russians speak, the Europeans get up and leave the room in a kind of demonstration of their wonderful virtue, We are not going to talk to the Russians; This will have to be resolved on the battlefield or Russia would have to capitulate.

It seems that they want to continue on the path of doctrine von der Leyen: peace is achieved with weapons. Zelensky, whose defeat is clear, seems to want to play this game, but its perspectives are not very good, because the United States demands that the postponed elections be made and will necessarily leave the political forum. For your country they are even more murky. Alberto Tejedor (Larazón.es, 2/2/25) points out how the English newspaper Daily Telegraph He filtered a draft about a series of leonine conditions that want to be imposed on Ukraine, an invaded country, and covered by the exploitation of their ports and infrastructure by the US, to access to their oil, gas and other natural resources reserves.

It would be a American economic colonization from Ukraine to perpetuity. In addition, EU wants Ukraine to pay 500 billion dollars on rare and valuable minerals that he owns in his subsoil.

Negotiation, however, will not be easy. Ernesto Villar in Four traps for Zelenski: a gift, a colony, a stone guest and a chocolate medal (Larazón.org. 02/2/25) Refers to the meeting of 7 European leaders convened by the French president, Emmanuel Macron, who voluntarily did not achieve something with more livelihood than a declaration of intentions and the predisposition to send troops of peace to the Ukrainian territory promoted by London.

Trump and other officials of his administration seem to be taking up this idea of ​​sending peace to Ukraine, perhaps to take away the bad taste left by Vance’s speech. However, this seems like a conflicting idea, because it comes from European leaders who have been looking for the deepening of war. It is much to be seen.